The Dental cosmos . of very distin-guished appearance, and this gives us ahint as to the social condition of thebetter class of dentists in Paris duringthe reign of Louis XV; and second, be-cause of the verses annexed to the por-trait, which Dr. Wm. H. Trueman hascleverly put into English rhyme as fol-lows : Whilst Fauchard with wise hand and penFor health and beauty of the teeth mad tooth is gnashed in vain:His noble nature treats it with distain. It is the pitiful little human touch whichshows us that this great man had amonghis own confreres a few spiteful and en-vious detrac
The Dental cosmos . of very distin-guished appearance, and this gives us ahint as to the social condition of thebetter class of dentists in Paris duringthe reign of Louis XV; and second, be-cause of the verses annexed to the por-trait, which Dr. Wm. H. Trueman hascleverly put into English rhyme as fol-lows : Whilst Fauchard with wise hand and penFor health and beauty of the teeth mad tooth is gnashed in vain:His noble nature treats it with distain. It is the pitiful little human touch whichshows us that this great man had amonghis own confreres a few spiteful and en-vious detractors, which caused him in thelatter part of the second volume of thesecond edition to state, that The rumorhaving been falsely set about that he has 1238 THE DENTAL COSMOS. abandoned the profession—which rumorcannot have been invented otherwise thanby those individuals who, sacrificinghonor to interest, would attract to them-selves the persons who honor the authorwith their confidence—he therefore finds Fig. PIERRE FAUCHABD. (From ihe second French edition of hiswork, 1746.) it necessary to give warning that he stillcontinues the practice of his art in Paris,in the Eue de la Comedie Frangaise, to-gether with his brother-in-law and soledisciple, M. Duchemin. Or the versesmay refer, indirectly, to the bitter con-troversy that Croissant de Garengeot,a studious, dull man, who is remem- bered for the key he didnt invent,carried on against him. TEACHINGS OF THE FIRST DENTALTEXT-BOOK. Let us glance quickly at a very fewpoints in this first dental text-book, whichheld a first place in dental literature fornearly a hundred years. Of dental anatomy. In the opening chapter Fauchardspeaks of the structure, position, and con-nection of the teeth; of their origin andgrowth; he gives an excellent descriptionof the alveoli and the roots of the teeth,and calls attention to some anomaliesworthy of note. He describes the pulp-cavity and root-canals, and treats of thenerves, arteries, and
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